The big match between Liverpool vs Manchester United in the continuation of Week 26 of the English Premier League ended with the victory for the home team. The match played at Anfield Stadium on Sunday (05/03/2023) ended with a striking score of 7-0 for Liverpool’s victory.
Having only scored one goal in the first half through Cody Gakpo, the Reds rampaged and added six goals in the second half through Cody Gakpo’s second goal, Darwin Nunez and Moh Salah with two goals each, and Roberto Firmino.
The victory over Manchester United made Jrgen Klopp’s troops win four wins and one draw in the last five matches in the English Premier League. Currently, the Reds have risen to fifth place in the Premier League standings after displacing Newcastle United, who lost to Manchester City the day before.
Actually, Manchester United came to Anfield in full force with their core players, but for some reason during the game, the players actually performed very badly. As for Liverpool, the defeat in the first meeting at Old Trafford, as well as the support of the Anfield fans, made them appear extraordinary to beat Manchester United.
The Liverpool vs Manchester United meeting last night produced three bad records for Manchester United. The first bad note was the 7-0 score being the biggest defeat score in history for Manchester United against Liverpool.
After the previous biggest score was 0-5 for Liverpool’s victory when they beat Manchester United at Old Trafford in 2021.
Not only that, losing with a score of 7-0 was also the biggest defeat for Manchester United in the club’s history. Then the second bad note was the defeat in last night’s match which made Manchester United only able to win once against Liverpool in the last five meetings in the English Premier League.
The last victory that Manchester United won from Liverpool was when they won with a score of 2-1 in Week 3 of the English Premier League this season. In fact, in the last 15 meetings between the two teams, Manchester United could only win 3 wins, best compared to Liverpool who won 6 wins.
The last bad note is the defeat, which means that Manchester United have never won a match away to the big English Premier League teams. On October 2, 2022, Manchester United lost badly when they visited Manchester City headquarters, The Red Devils lost with a score of 6-3.
Then on October 22, 2022, Manchester United were only able to achieve a draw when playing at Stamford Bridge. Then during the second meeting with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, The Red Devils lost 3-1 to Mikel Arteta’s team. And the last one was when they lost badly to Liverpool at Anfield in Week 26 of the English Premier League.
Of the four matches, Manchester United have not won once. Manchester United’s statistics for away matches are also not so bad. From 13 matches, Manchester United won 6 wins, 5 defeats and 2 draws. Even so, this remains “homework” for Erik ten Hag. The crushing defeat against Liverpool certainly made the mentality of the Manchester United players decline. This cannot continue to happen because they are currently still playing in three different competitions.
If this is not immediately evaluated, then the dream of being able to win four trophies at once this season will not be realized. Liverpool’s big win is truly a big news and of course these bad records are really bad for Manchester United. However, we will see how both teams will respond in the next matches.
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